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I wonder if it's possible to have "World Championship" in some of those sports later in 2020. (unlikely I know) for example in wrestling there is no WCh scheduled in Olympic year of 2020, if they postpone the Olympics to 2021 I think that will cancel the 2021 World Championships in sports like wrestling

I think the officiating was OK in that match, Ghasemi was passive and deserved those cautions, actually nobody expected him to even win a silver, Akgul was huge huge favorite against him. beating Petriashvili was already a huge achievement, well Dlagnev got injured in his QF match, if you watch his SF with Ghasemi, it was also the same story, in something like 30 seconds, that was stupid of Dlagnev to wrestle despite the injury and make himself looks like a fool

I'm surprised that I couldn't remember that match at all and had to watch it again ! no I don't think that was correct, even though they changed the rules something like 1000 times since then, right now they don't award points at all for situation like that but maybe in 2016 they were too kind to award points easier, but Cox was never in total control, even for a moment to deserves those points, so to me that was a wrong call

Health ministry here said from today they are not going to announce the number of infected/deaths province by province, it will be only the total number, because they think those numbers gave some people wrong idea about some places are "safer" and therefore we have lots of travels to those cities ! according to health ministry ,nowhere is actually "safe" some provinces are reporting less numbers mostly because they are not doing a good job testing people. personally I think this is a terrible idea, I prefer to know the situation in my town, I understand why a complete lockdown is not possible here, but still they can block the roads, that's what they were supposed to do 2 weeks ago. but only happened for few cities. according to officials, 8.5 million people traveled outside of their town in new year holidays (in past 5 days) while at least the numbers were steady here in past 10 days we are expected to see a new wave of coronavirus in next 2 weeks. and with more doctors and nurses are getting infected themselves and hospitals are still full with current patients, things don't look good.

crore means 10 millions,

This is really scary that we have to consider 651 deaths as good. but hopefully the number continues to drop, to zero eventually

This disaster started in Iran and Italy almost at the same time, (probably a bit sooner in Iran) and both countries have almost the same population and the numbers were more or less the same until few days ago , since then it's increasing in a very scary way in Italy while they are steady here ! for this reason I see so many people here question the numbers coming out of health ministry, even though I still see no reason for coverup while every minute you see someone on TV begging people to stay at home and telling people a catastrophe is awaiting for us if people don't listen, but I also can't find a reason explaining this. because I'm 100% sure the Iranian government didn't handle it better than the Italians, that's simply impossible. it's just hard to be worse than officials here. I also know our health system and our doctors are probably the best in the region but still not better than Europe. so the question remains, if we believe the numbers, what's the reason ? actually I'm not talking about the number of infected people. that's somehow irrelevant, countries have different policies, in some places they test everybody, but for example in Iran, the number of test they can do per day is limited. therefore they don't test everybody. I'm mostly talking about the number of deaths. I know we have a younger population, probably much younger, but is that enough to explain this huge difference ?

as you said middle east conflicts are usually endless. but this one between Russia and Turkey is complicated, it's mostly between Assad troops and Turkey. Russia is not directly involved. I think Putin and Erdogan met few weeks ago and solved their problems. Putin got what he wanted from Syria, he doesn't care if Turkey invades some lands inside Syrian borders. that's only Assad's problem.

I know few people in Tajikistan, they closed all borders from the first day and didn't let even a dog in without 14 days mandatory quarantine. not completely sure about Turkmenistan but I think they also did the same. they gave up hosting Asian Futsal Championship weeks before other countries even imagine about not hosting . but both countries have "presidents" for life so you never can be sure about anything. Emomali Rahman is ruling Tajikistan for a very long time, longer than life of most of Totallympics users Syria probably did 0 tests so far, so I guess having 0 positive result is 100% accurate . if the virus finds its way into those refugee camps it will be catastrophic and I think it's just matter of time.

They arrested those guys actually for disrespecting holy places lol but I think that was Mashhad in Northeast, not Qom. that was disgusting though. now we know the virus is spread hugely because of those stupid religious gatherings. and the government acted very late to shut down all those places. they are closed now but a bit late. maybe because the majority of news about in Iran are not in English the health ministry has a press conference everyday at 14:00 and announces the numbers. and there are tons of information about the situation in every single province, of course some people always question anything comes from Iranian government because of their bad reputation.

for scientists of course. I mean for other people my point is when you are trapped at home for a month with nothing to do, nothing to watch, when you hear at least 100 people dying everyday in your country, some of them in your own town (and I know it's even worse in some other places), you start not caring about the origin, you just want your life back to normal

So you are in this phase to ask questions like that. I remember people asking questions like this here 3 weeks ago but I can't see that anymore. right now it doesn't matter what's the origin of this virus. but we are in a new phase "fuck it, enough self-quarantine for me, let's go have fun"

yes being a top Chinese table tennis player is just the start and you have to go through hell to be selected (even though that automatically means an Olympic medal at least) but I was talking about sports that award quotas based on world ranking. in TT it's up to NOCs to pick their own team.

of course it doesn't matter for Iran, actually I'm glad Ganjzadeh made it. he has more chance for the gold medal than Poursheib. I really really feel sorry for Poursheib , I know he sacrificed a lot to be in Tokyo, but I always preferred Ganjzadeh. yes having another K1 event most probably wouldn't change much for Poursheib and that's not the point, he didn't even mention that in his long post. he is more upset about the rules favoring Ganjzadeh over him despite having less points. he is hugely disappointed because they didn't know having more points won't be enough for him. they only found out about it when he surpassed Ganjzadeh in the ranking but WKF ranking was still showing Ganjzadeh in green. WKF should mentioned it very clearly in its official qualification rule but they didn't predict such a rare situation. and I don't think there are "many many more" athletes who are 2nd in Olympic Ranking and still doesn't qualify for the olympics. (I'm talking about sports with qualification based on the ranking) this is very very rare where top 2 are from the same country. I know it happened at men's 58kg taekwondo but can't remember another example in any other sports. Poursheib is very upset because he is not even behind another Iranian in the WR. my point is I think Poursheib deserved it more because he had more points even though I still think Ganjzadeh is a better option.

Spain and UK are way past "tracking people" I think we can say the same about almost all other countries. only China was able of tracking everybody.

I have a question, Why the death rate is very low in Germany ? because they test everybody like South Korea or there is another special reason ?

I was reading the news and this one was huge World Pencak Silat Championships in Malaysia is now postponed for 4 months damn you Corona

Zabihollah Poursheib wrote something on his instagram , that's very long but the main point is this line This is very unfair, very cruel, the history should remember that the second place in Olympic Ranking didn't qualify for the Olympics.

I think porn websites are blocked in most (and maybe even all) Muslim countries, in this matter they are all the same, strict or not. but of course as you know blocking a website doesn't stop people from reaching it. here almost everybody knows how to find a way to unblock websites. ps: internet is almost free these days here, (at least until last night, I don't know how does it work in the new year) to encourage younger generation to stay at home, the internet speed is not great because of that, ICT minister asked people to use internet during the day and not only in peak time. but then some people started making jokes about it saying something like "you can't tell us when to watch porn during the day "

actually I'm surprised that porn websites are blocked in China ! why China should block them ? that's usually for Muslim countries.

until few days ago I was against any change in the schedule but now I think this is impossible to have the games this summer . this is just starting in some other countries and coronavirus problem won't be solved before July. it's not only about Japan but 200 other countries and more than 20000 people traveling to Japan for the Games. and I think IOC has to postpone it as soon as possible. because some athletes are risking their health training in these situation. in some countries there is no place to train properly these days. yes for some football or tennis players Olympic doesn't matter much, they can boycott it but for most amateur athletes Olympic is everything and they will participate no matter what

no. it's not a sure thing that a free spot remains available in this weight after they give the continental quotas. it's very complicated actually. it depends on who qualifies in the last chance qualifier.

Things changed very quickly in past few weeks. I think two months ago nobody expected us to be in this situation right now, I was reading some news, interviews and reactions from February and this one caught my attention this is from 31 January. Wilbur Ross says Coronavirus could boost US jobs

according to highway Police yesterday at the start of "holidays" there were more than a million cars (to be accurate 1,112,000) on the roads between cities. 50% decrease comparing to the same time last year but still that's huge which means something like 3 or 4 millions had traveled in one day. yayyy . long live Corona

WKF announced the list of Qualified athletes so far https://www.wkf.net/news-center-new/meet-karates-first-qualified-athletes-for-tokyo-2020/1256 while we knew it already, the most interesting part is the Japanese names. all high ranked Japanese athletes in each category are qualified . not sure if it was mandatory by WKF or that was Japan's selection criteria.